Great British Bake Off’s Iain Watters: It was stressful, I was very up and down

Iain Watters appeared on Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice with Jo Brand to discuss exactly what did happen when he lost his cool in the ice cream task. And we just wanted to give him a great big hug.

Quite frankly we hold Sue Perkins responsible for jinxing Iain Watters when she said he and that beard needed to be in the final.

Like all failed contestants, Watters appeared on the spin-off show to discuss his unfortunate axing from the main show. And of course all anyone wanted to know was what DID happen during bingate?

Addressing his moment of madness when he lobbed his failed baked Alaska in the bin, he said: ‘It’s very stressful. people don’t realise at home that baking in a tent is very different. I was very up and down.’

Discussing his failed dessert, he said: ‘I lifted [the cake tin] off because I didn’t know how bad it was. Sue was giving me serving suggestions. I think Lake Alaska was one of them. It was annoying.’

But just to prove that had the sabotage, sorry, accident not happened his dessert would have been perfection, he brought one along for Jo to try.

What Iain’s baked Alaska could have been (Picture: BBC)

On that heart-stopping moment when he realised all was not well with his frozen pud, he said: ‘I looked in the freezer and I was like, it was definitely in the freezer. I had some quiet near a tree thing. It didn’t help.’

Which, of course, was the moment he went and dumped said pud. Oopsie.

All was not lost though. There were some highs amongst his lows: ‘I was most proud of my Moroccan flat from bread week, it all went to plan and I didn’t do any grunting or use a bin.’